Degrees of Intelligence

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Originally Posted by Apollo

I believe I'm too intelligent to believe in destiny

I think to myself,"He really is lucky". after reflecting on how he obtained this successful dream-job. Thing is, you don't need an education to be somewhere in life. It's all about that opportunity. Did he want this? Who knows.. I think I'm beating myself up.

I don't think it makes any sense at all to say that someone can be "too intelligent to believe in destiny." This would require that everyone who is more intelligent than you to also not believe in it, which is surely false.

I think your friend is probably both very gifted and got lucky. But that's how it works. There's no need to beat yourself up, or change your life philosophy or whatnot. I don't think it's "destiny," it just happens. Someone has to win the lottery. At the end of the day hard work is going to get more people to more places than luck is (and you very often DO need an education), we just hear about the results of luck more because it's so much more astounding.